# Movies you've seen recently (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 27, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288 "2024-08-27T05:10:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 138
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2741 "2025-07-14T22:20:40Z")
I’m still annoyed that they made a sequel and didn’t call it **Now You Don’t**. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2742 "2025-07-14T23:28:58Z")
Guess what. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-E3lMRx7HRQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) Official Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E3lMRx7HRQ) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2743 "2025-07-14T23:47:35Z")
Took them long enough! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2744 "2025-07-14T23:56:07Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Jesse Eisenberg. Hate that guy. Interesting, because so do I. But I can’t quite articulate why. Just rubs me the wrong way somehow. There are other actors I don’t like but usually for very clear reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2745 "2025-07-15T00:42:45Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > If this is the movie I’m thinking of, isn’t there a scene where one of the magicians escapes from a locked jail cell because of his stage magic skills? Like, he’s in the cell one second, and the next he’s standing outside of it. Aren’t they released due to lack of evidence? Poor Jesse Eisenberg, classic case of [Backpfeifengesicht](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Backpfeifengesicht). ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2746 "2025-07-15T00:56:47Z")
Playing Marc Zuckerberg did nothing to increase his likability. I call it Steve Railsback syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2747 "2025-07-15T01:17:34Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Poor Jesse Eisenberg, classic case of [Backpfeifengesicht](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Backpfeifengesicht). Seems to me that he’s doing just fine, one might even say “swell,” punchable face or no. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2748 "2025-07-15T01:31:43Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > > [@Wheelz](#): > > > > If this is the movie I’m thinking of, isn’t there a scene where one of the magicians escapes from a locked jail cell because of his stage magic skills? Like, he’s in the cell one second, and the next he’s standing outside of it. > > Aren’t they released due to lack of evidence? Here we go. They are both locked in the cell at the beginning of this clip, then you can skip to 5:30. I rolled my eyes so hard I could see my brain. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8edS2o5RxJM/maxresdefault.jpg "The 5th Horseman Revelation (Prison Scene) | Now You See Me") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8edS2o5RxJM) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2749 "2025-07-15T01:37:41Z")
It’s such a tough movie series for me. I hate Jesse Eisenberg more than any other actor, but I love Mark Ruffalo. There’s very little I’ve seen him in that hasn’t impressed me. But, no, too much Eisenberg in this one for me. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2750 "2025-07-15T03:24:49Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-Denciie5oA/maxresdefault.jpg "12 STRONG - Official Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Denciie5oA) good fit with the 911 book I just finished and I like Hemsworth ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2751 "2025-07-15T07:40:29Z")
I enjoyed 12 Strong in the theater but really felt like its a film that came too late, a patriotic war film about Afghanistan but in 2018?! ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2752 "2025-07-15T07:59:54Z")
there are still WWII films being made tho. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2753 "2025-07-15T09:36:53Z")
Speaking of WWII films, I watched **The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare** last night. I was shocked to discover at the end that it was based on a real WWII operation (Operation Postmaster) because the whole film was so cartoonishly stupid. Even Churchill was a complete caricature. Apparently you can just wander into an enemy camp in broad daylight and shoot and/or stab 60 soldiers without difficulty, aided by \< checks notes \> a silenced submachine gun? In fact most of the film is “the main cast walk around and shoot and/or stab Nazis with impunity” to the point where you start to feel like they’ve depopulated an entire German city’s worth of men. I don’t mind Guy Ritchie in general but this is just dumb dumb dumb. Honestly, the whole thing is saved from _complete_ unwatchability by the presence of Henry Cavill, who is a delight in everything. (Another note: at the end, there are the usual “here are pictures of the real people and all the awesome things they did” after-comments, which for some reason leave out the fact that they all died before the end of the war, some within a couple of months of the operation. Too much of a downer, I guess.) ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2754 "2025-07-15T10:22:18Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > CODA 2021 (Child of Deaf Adults) Marlee Matlin, Emilia Jones I cannot comment if it’s better because I’ve not watched it yet, but this is a remake of a french movie [La Famille Belier](https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt3547740/) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2755 "2025-07-15T13:42:06Z")
_La Famille Belier_ is a French/Belgian movie. Unlike _CODA_, it has hearing people playing deaf people. In the past month, the documentary _Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore_ has been released. It’s a film about her with lots of interviews. Some of the interviews have people signing American Sign Language with subtitles in English. Some of them have people speaking English with subtitles in English. Some interesting facts are revealed in it. Did you know that Henry Winkler (i.e., Fonzie in _Happy Days_) is one of her closest friends? ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2756 "2025-07-15T16:12:42Z")
Couldn’t agree more. I’d expected some silliness (it’s Ritchie, after all) but it was way OTT. I doubt the reality was anything like it, although as ever I guess dramatic licence must be allowed to some extent. _Operation Mincemeat_ was better but actually more of a disappointment as I had higher expectations. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2757 "2025-07-15T21:41:02Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > My first sentence in that quote was inappropriate and I apologize and withdraw it. Consider it forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2758 "2025-07-15T21:55:26Z")
I watched _The Old Guard 2_ last night. It’s a good turn your brain off movie. As can be gleaned from the opening screen on Netflix it’s about a group of immortals who go around killing bad guys. No real explanation why any of this is happening. Don’t think too much about it. Decent cast with Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor and an underutilized Uma Thurman. Well done action. Just don’t expect anything to be resolved. It was made assuming there will be a third one. Apparently this comes from a series of graphic novels. Maybe that fleshes out the mythos more. The movies certainly don’t. > [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Did you know that Henry Winkler (i.e., Fonzie in _Happy Days_) is one of her closest friends? I think everyone who meets Henry Winkler considers him to be one of their closest friends. He’s also very close friends with Sylvester Stallone going all the way back to **The Lords of Flatbush.** ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2759 "2025-07-15T22:39:23Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Henry Winkler What happened with Marlee Matlin was that she had just broken up with a boyfriend. She needed a place to stay for a weekend. Winkler said she could stay with him and his family for the weekend. She ended up staying for two years. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2760 "2025-07-15T22:55:09Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I think everyone who meets Henry Winkler considers him to be one of their closest friends. Except for [Tom Hanks](https://screenrant.com/turner-and-hooch-tom-hanks-henry-winkler-feud-why/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=137) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=139)